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under the unreasoning spell of new love or attraction- He is infatuated with her.
- "I only say that we're too infatuated with mere brain-power; that, after all, isn't a vulgar fault.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- Make it look like an infatuation, perhaps.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- What infatuation is it, what obstinate prepossession, that blinds you to that?George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- "I only say that we're too infatuated with mere brain-power; that, after all, isn't a vulgar fault.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- I felt like a boy talking to his first infatuation.Bella Forrest -- A Shade of Vampire
- I don't think mating and infatuation and friendships and closeness would occur if our faces didn't work that way."Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
- Everyone who heard of his infatuation for the school teacher was sure it would turn out badly.Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
- Upon this occasion my father said, with an expression of unbounded wonder, "My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this?Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- And how strange an infatuation on Frederick's side!Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- How good of you to wait in the rain all this time—to gratify my infatuation!Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- I could hope for nothing from one so infatuated with and devoted to his master.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- In college she had harbored lengthy infatuations, with students with whom she never spoke, with professors and TAs.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- Is there nothing left, to which I can appeal against this terrible infatuation!'Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- Usually I hate it when artists get too infatuated with light, but this is special.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- It was time to end her little infatuation with Mike once and for all.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- No, Viv: your infatuated little boy will have to stick to you in any case.George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
- I've come to learn that there's real value in that—a value greater than any infatuation.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- She wanted to be taken and she was, and what had begun with a childish infatuation on a beach was accomplished at last.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)